Bands like Nirvana had theatrical sensibilities, playing with image, challenging assumptions people were making about them, the apex being Kurt Cobain in a dress to make a point.

I don't think of myself as particularly cursed or blessed. I think I got dealt a set of cards, and I'm playing with them, sometimes in heels, sometimes in combat boots.

If you're going to make work and you're going to write and you're going to put yourself out there and perform, you will be belittled, you will be insulted, you will be called a standard collection of names, you will be accused, and you just have to stand there and continue to work and find a way to not let those things poison you.

On many days, harder than the act of making the art itself is the act of sharing it and living in a culture that you know is built to tear you down.

I'm a massive fan of David Lynch and 'Twin Peaks.'

Art is food for the soul, and an artistic climate is a healthy climate because it breeds empathy.

Twitter fascinates me because it's real. It feels kind of unreal, but it makes very real things happen.